Small dining tables are cozy and comfortable and ideal for people that don’t usually entertain or that don‘t receive guests often. There are plenty of designs and styles to choose from and hopefully the examples we‘ve selected can be of some help. They‘re pretty inspiring so try to picture them in a particular context so you can capture their entire beauty and to reveal their exquisite character.

The Molletta bench is designed by Baldessari and Baldessari and comes in three different sizes. The Platform collection is a series of tables that combine concrete, steel and walnut into simple and robust designs.

We‘re all familiar with rattan, although sometimes we think it‘s one and the same as wicker. But the material we now associate with cozy furniture is actually full of surprises. The term rattan, for instance, defines more than 600 species of climbing palms and a lot of them are in fact more similar to lianas than to actual wood. Rattan has slender stems and doesn‘t grow like a tree but more like a vine, also being a bit similar to bamboo from certain points of view.